Mazatlan Sinaloa: 19 Killed in Military Clash

The last night of June and the first night of July began with an attempted and successful kidnapping but ended with a fierce confrontation between Sinaloan Authorities and armed gunmen equipped with tactical gear and high caliber weapons. Nineteen suspected criminals were killed in the confrontation with Mazatlan Municipal Police, Sinaloa State Police and members of the Mexican Army and Navy. Five uniformed men were wounded.

Cristobal Castaneda Camarillo, the State's Security spokesman says that the confrontation began around eight pm near the communities of La Amapa and Villa Union at the Junction of Mexican Federal Highway #5 and the road to Aguaje de Costilla. Municipal police officers led by Mazatlan's Public Security Secretary, Joel Soto, were attacked by the 19 individuals moving in four trucks approximately 22 kilometers south of the port city. Camarillo made an official statement around Midnight.The armed group arrived at Villa Union to kidnap a man known as "El Llagas". Two men came out to try to defend him and were immediately executed. According to neighboring witnesses the criminals did successfully kidnap "El Llagas". About 8:15 a black van arrived at a house in the Lopez Portillo neighborhood of Villa Union. The assassins noticed a third man inside the house and henceforth entered the kitchen and executed him, repeatedly shooting him. They then made off with ''El Llagas''.

Concerned citizens of the neighborhood who became alarmed by the sound of gunfire erupting in the night notified the nearest Municipal authorities just a few blocks away. As police units patrolled the area the armed group fled toward La Amapa and the persecution by authorities began. Back up units of the State Police and Army and Navy Patrols joined in and at the junction of Mexico #5 and the Road to Aguaje de Costilla, about 8 kilometers away, is where the authorities and criminals clashed for nearly an hour.

19 of the suspects were killed in the fierce gunfight; five policemen wounded and /or injured, two reportedly seriously, including one woman. Red Cross Paramedics came to offer first aid and transport the wounded to several Mazatlan medical institutions. Two criminals were taken into custody; Jhonathan Ulises "N"and Jose Lourdes "N". The whereabouts of the remaining suspects and the kidnapped man are unknown at this time.Three vehicles were secured after the confrontation and another in La Amapa. Twelve AK-47s, two Ar 15s , one shotgun and seven pistols were also recovered by the Authorities. These were the numbers according to the official bulletin. Just a few hours after the bloody gun battle an unidentified lifeless body of a man was found half buried in a vacant lot under a tree by a neighbor who had gone there to cut wood and he notified authorities. It is unknown at this time if the discovery is related.

The Mazatlan City Council has already met to discuss the "Villa Union massacre" that has shocked all of Sinaloa. City Council Secretary Jose Joel Boucieguez says: "the the heads of the state's government will take all necessary measures to restore security in the region and make Mazatlan an exemplary municipality for development and tourism at the national level.

general brigadier de estado mayor ernesto alejando vadillo trueba, before coming to sinaloa's 9a Zona militar he was in tamaulipas, during a very heavy season of ambushes against the military that always ended with dozens of sicarios killed in action during Viejidio Cantu governorship, I don't know if giniral vadillo had a cozy relationshp with FUERZA Herculos, the polesia estatal de cantu but he will be working now with the new narco-governors goobernador "coppel", since 2016, like presiding over the montages vs La Chapa and co.

7:22; Jaja, very bad! But Villa Union isn't exactly Mazatlan. It's the first town at the end of the highway that connects Sinaloa and Durango, and that also is located along highway 15 that runs north and south along the west coast of Mexico. Villa Union is maybe 30-40 minute drive south from Mazatlan, but is still in the 3100 square km of the Municipio de Mazatlan. What doesn't add up to me is the Policía Municipal in Mazatlan only carry small arm assault rifles but many photos show injuries that require a 30mm or more to inflict... so Marines, army, or other bad guys with must have played larger role than story indicates. Anyone else notice this?

12:41; It's funny how you think anything that happens in Sinaloa is "CDS or BLO". Jaja! That's because you want it to be but that's simply ridiculous!! Were the Latin Kings or MS13 responsible for the 40+ shootings in Chicago this weekend? Like CDS is gonna go after some small time mota distributor. Sinaloa has thousands of small time traffickers like Illinois has thousands of drug dealers and with this comes disputes.

4:02 this guy i have a brother that lives in that area which has been disputed for a while now its los mazatlecos of chapo isidro who have gained ground around el rosario Cosala and are aggresively fighting for that whole area around Mazatlan against el Chonecas who is with chapos sons . ms 13 and latin kings are street gangs who are over exaggerated

ms13 is not over exaggerated son. if you want to move product through el salvador or honduras well you better have the ok from ms13. if not you will get caught up period. the drug game has gotten bigger than people think. gangs that can control countries are employed by these drug cartels.

I think it's great. Fuck them. They lit the whole country on fire for greed and power. Back stabbing and betrayal. Now they are surrounded. Getting picked off on the outskirts. And slowly they will get trapped inside the big city's. And then it's the lightning strike strategy. Easy money.

8:29 Yes and the 30 people shot in gang crossfire at nightclub in Little Rock Arkansas is just another night in USA. Your uninformed as to the reality of life in Mexico so why make uninformed statements like that. I lived 52 years in Mexico and have never seen what you call normal day in Mexico.

One crazy rapper arrested in Little Rock shooting.In mexico nobody wi arrest these murdering soldjers, but if by the fruit you recognize the tree, the military zone commander was "trained in Fort Benning in the School of the Americas, also k own as the School of the Assassins according to School Of the Americas Watch (SOA WATCH.COM)these total anihilation come from military ambushes, staged, prepared and provoked to show work. Even the communist do not do that, or they?Well, some may be trying to copy the green face poisonings

11:03 better take off your calzones for them, real law enforcement do not carry out extra-judiciary executions, and the narcos do not usually fight military personnel unless forced to, These action as described are teleproduciones para tontos, I mean tele.productions for fools.

5:48 poe a estos güeyes se los llevó La prca como en una hora, no surrender allowed, se prohibited rendirse, surrender would not be accepted, El General needs to looks good, and he kows what brings the promotions, after that tamaulipas assignment brings a lot of practice to Sinaloa, he may be made "Secretario de la Defensa Nacional" with the next president of mexicou.

6:28; Villa Union is important for mota and poppy harvests that come from all the south sierra of Sinaloa. Also many harvests from Acapulco to Nayarit are sold in Villa Union because after Villa Union there are check stop areas for drogas and imigrants on carretera 15. The buyers from Villa Union know more organized buyers in Mazatlan and Culiacán that can access secure routes into any city in the USA where they have regular and confident buyers.

They meant to write highway 15 because Villa Union is off of 15 and 5 is on Baja peninsula. Villa Union is the second market for mota from the sierra after Salto because Villa Union is at end of the old highway Durango Mazatlan and many trucks driving highway 15 pickup and take to frontera. Villa Union is always calm and we don't know what this is about. I am from Walamo 7 km from Villa Union.

No pity here at all if anything I am so glad they are dead what they are chinolas or not good thing they are dead just wishing the numbers were 190 and not 19 but that Is fine 19 scumbags less in the world

The battle lasted over 1 hr? And 21 criminals with ak 47 only injured 5 cops, its pretty embarrasing how mexico tries to hide their dead soldiers /cops there is a high probability that there was more cops dead than criminals

Ever since the soldier's family was killed after the "el botas blancas" shoot out the press and the government hide that evidence for the soldier's families safety. They don't want the same thing happening twice.

I, thought the same thing. Only five cops injured???I, would expect at least one or two cop casualties they would repor aside from the five injured but this is ridiculous.If this is what it takes to boost morale within the police forces then I, guess that is what they report!!!

Wow your ignorant. Ar type weapons shoot srtaighter than the ak just basex on design. Add to that the fact that even a mexican cop has to have some training compare to a mountain hick wannabe sicarios and it makes sence that more lower ranked cartel fucks die that law officials in law vs cartel shootouts.

9:08 "Since the soldier's family got murdered" some people have used the incident to hang around "masked for protection", many of them foreign security contractors/Soldiers of Fortune mercenaries, some work for the cartels, but most of them like a secure government check, even mexican government check, instead of the eternal promises of fame and riches and a few grams of shit a week the cartels pay instead of cold hard cash.Prior to that, before they finally caught up with el Barbas, he was almost captured, barely escaped, and the federal police.commander that laid the trap was murdered when he arrived to his parents home, federal police agents were.waiting for.him with orders to kill him, part of the program of assassinations of genaro garcia luna's commanders.I mean, federal police agents and soldiers are not safe from their own brothers at arms, and director of their police corporations, imagine common citizens!!!

@2:33 your the idiot bro , a comando of 4 truck carrying around 25 30 guys with ak 47 and ar 15 you think can cruise around without having the cops bought or intimidated ?? Its obvious they have the whole area under control reinforcements everywhere , look outs. this was a cartel comando vs. Cartel linked cops/ military . mexican news are reporting it as a battle between blo vs CDS than i assumed military arrived and the cartel linked to the military will just let the military take the credit

@2.33 almost any rifle in the world will out shoot the shooter, if you have seen a rifle locked into a bench rest with a solenoid on the trigger, you would be staggered at how accurate most rifles are, in most cases hit or miss is down to the human firing it not the rifle.

Have you seen the Iraqi army shooting syrian rebels/ISIS style against the powerful invisible ISIS rebels on the run?They just lift their weapons over their heads and shoot blindly over the wall against the invisible unseen enemy, then report iraq's "recovering of mosul" and the public laps it up.

There is a video of mexican army shooting it up for reals.They were riding on a road and were attacked by a sudden urge to make a fake combat against some imaginary narco-sicario insurgents video, just needed to unload their old bullets to make room for a new supply, their american dealer needed to move "merchandise".

12:17 ah, one more pendejo obsessed with the low ranking unconsequential low value bottom feeders, please bitch.At least make them one corrido first before bringing them up to BB, But don't expect a Pulitzer Prize for your asperaions...

"the the heads of the state's government will take all necessary measures to restore security in the region and make Mazatlan an exemplary municipality for development and tourism at the national level."

What I find misleading the most with the Mexican government is that they never reveal numbers where they get their ass kicked. There's been more than one occation where I know they've had Marina's killed but the papers mention nothing of it. It's obviously propoganda to make the Mexican forces seem badass and tough but me being from Sinaloa I know it's a load of basura. 19 to 1? Seems unlikely af

Come on bro!! Get real. Most of those sicarios were high on meth or coke and couldn't hit their ass with both hands. They are "spraying and praying" while the Marines used disciplined fire to take them out.

Remember that shootout in Nayarit where there was a wedding between family member of h2 and chapo isidro and marines tried to ambush them and they were saying chapo isidro got shot well it was bs 12 marines died and a helicopter was said by locals to have been shot down and noticed that nothing was reported throughout mexico only local newspapers reported it and even then they hid their casualties , its sad because it minimizes the problem these narcos can put up a fight against mexican marines obviously as a goverment who is supposed to protect its citizens is failing whenn marines cant even protect themselves

4:p6 never forget the marinelas and the aguacates serve the Butcher de Atenco who ordered the rapes and beatings of the women protesting about being robbed of their land and th incarceration of the protestinG farmers.And that they Ave been kidnapping and murdering and disappearing innocent people with the best criminals the mexican government could pick, including the 47 ayotzinapos, tlatlaya, apatzingan and many other heroics, and they have been rewarded with institutional impunity.

I read many comments that doubt the government's figures regarding number of law enforcement personnel wounded, that is, implying that there were more dead or wounded than the 5 personnel reported. The implication is that the sicarios would have inflicted more casualties and the government for some reason is not reporting them. I don't buy into that. Narcos are used to killing their victims by ambushing them, and many, many times their victims are unarmed civilians.When these heroic sicarios meet up with trained and motivated law enforcement personnel, especially marines, they invariably get their butts kicked.

2:25 These super sicarios know the armed forces will always win, that is why they usually surrender, But the surrender is not accepted because obliterating a bunch of we'll armed and empecherados narco-sicaries will get more promotions faster, no way the mexican military will permit themselves to get caught in another Tlatlaya style mass murder massacre full of assassinated cadavers, televisa must be advising...

To everyone bitching about there was no dead cops/marinos get off the gas.. Narcos are well known to be like the skinnys frm Somalia that can't shoot worth a shit. A group of trained Marines against some jackasses with aks that have minimal training 🤔 yea even my 8yr old will tell you who would end up with more casualties.. Yes the Mex government is known to hide casualties due to the embarrassment it would cause but 5 wounded still sounds believable let the hating begin.... Lol. Saludos a todo los de BB for all the hard work....

@11:09 you really believe that AK 47 and AR 15 are rounds that only kill? There are prolly a few dead gov't officials but lets not pretend that these guns have some special ability on cops and soldiers. There are plenty of wounded victims to both of these guns.

My personal favorite line is the last one.All the Políticos try to keep putting a good face on everything so the " tourists " will still keep coming to their 5 Star " All Inclusive " Beach Resorts/ Towns........as if a lot of them are not part of a giant dinero lavanda máquina ( moey laundering machine ).

One thing is clearly evident, the capture and extradition of El chapos has transformed Sinaloa into a war zone. Confrontations have been escalated to a high. Disruption and chaos which was practically nonexistent is present now. From small time drug gangs which have become brazen to attempt such behavior in a state where order and law of capos were golden. Trying times are factors for such in Sinaloa. Question is ? How or what outcome will arise from such. And who will prevail? I'm sure suppliers need reassurance/ guarantees. Business models and analysis depend on solid structure. Just a business point of view.

I buy tjat 19:0(5) Story. The ak47 might ne powerfull due to 7.68 but its not very accurate.The first shoots ok but the rest goes in the air.the ar15 is More accurate. And i knew that training pays off. I dont belive the nino sicarios are well trained. Maybe it was an ambush by the Marina. Killng them is easier and works better then putting them on trial.